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Lean Built: Manufacturing Freedom
Lean Built: Manufacturing Freedom

Safety Over Throughput: The Leadership Test Shop Owners Fail | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E135

02 March 2026 52:35 Henry Holsters and Pierson Workholding

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A tornado tears through Bloomington, leading Andrew and Jay to discuss practical leadership during real-world emergencies. From there, the conversation shifts back to the shop floor: chip conveyors on Brother machines, production layout tradeoffs, palletized workholding vs. one-piece flow, and the realities of automation. They explore the pros and cons of high-density fixturing, robot-fed cells, and Okuma’s compact MU-600V five-axis machine with part handoff capability.


The second half moves into the accelerating world of AI in manufacturing. Jay shares how he’s using Claude to rapidly build internal software tools, while Andrew talks through vibe-coded machine monitoring dashboards and real-time shop visibility systems. They wrestle with simplicity vs. data overload, operator-focused visual management, and what the next wave of AI-powered shop tools might look like.

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